So, to increase efficiency, and to get away from my old poorly lit laptop monitor (LT) I purchased a very nice LG 23' LCD. The screen is nice.. and I am happy with it except for one thing:
I am unable to set it as the primary display in duelview (which is kind of important)
In a word it is confounding.
the system is a Toshiba P100 with a Gforce 7200 go
I can use the new LCD as on its own as the primary display
I can use the Laptop LCD as the primary display
I can use the new LCD as a secondary display in duelview
but I cannot use it as the primary display in duelview
in fact if I have it set as the owly display, and go to the windows display options, windows plays along... clicking identify shows my new LCD as "1" clicking the greyed out LT monitor prompts dialog asking if I would like to set enable it as a span or something... and when I select apply, it sets the LT LCD as the primary one (at which point I may have howled in anger like an animal...)
Attempting to solve set this up from the NVideo utilities yeilds much the same result, single view works, however when I click the textbox "primary monitor" actually changes its text removing my new LCD as an option
My first attempted solution was the update the video card drivers of coarse, with no success. before or after.
Then suspecting some sort of blocking, I updated the bios to the newest version (there is however no bios option to use a secondary monitor as the primary).
If I go to the windows display properties and select advanced-> monitor in duelview the LG is greyed out, LT is primary and changing to plug and play is changed back to primary the next time I check the settings (could be interference by the nvidia drivers but as mentioned they wont let me remove or change the LT as primary monitor).
I then tried installing the drivers from the CD that the monitor came with (and here I was thinking they included that for my coffee mug...) to no avail.
I am pretty much ready for some registry editing, third party applications, or other hacking of my hardware at this point, as I am beginning to feel that this is programmed in such a way as to never allow the user to change default monitors. Anyone ever had this problem before and survived it?
I hope the problem is an incompetent user, but I fear lazy or inept programmers.
The irony is I had thought having two screens would save me time...
I am unable to set it as the primary display in duelview (which is kind of important)
In a word it is confounding.
the system is a Toshiba P100 with a Gforce 7200 go
I can use the new LCD as on its own as the primary display
I can use the Laptop LCD as the primary display
I can use the new LCD as a secondary display in duelview
but I cannot use it as the primary display in duelview
in fact if I have it set as the owly display, and go to the windows display options, windows plays along... clicking identify shows my new LCD as "1" clicking the greyed out LT monitor prompts dialog asking if I would like to set enable it as a span or something... and when I select apply, it sets the LT LCD as the primary one (at which point I may have howled in anger like an animal...)
Attempting to solve set this up from the NVideo utilities yeilds much the same result, single view works, however when I click the textbox "primary monitor" actually changes its text removing my new LCD as an option
My first attempted solution was the update the video card drivers of coarse, with no success. before or after.
Then suspecting some sort of blocking, I updated the bios to the newest version (there is however no bios option to use a secondary monitor as the primary).
If I go to the windows display properties and select advanced-> monitor in duelview the LG is greyed out, LT is primary and changing to plug and play is changed back to primary the next time I check the settings (could be interference by the nvidia drivers but as mentioned they wont let me remove or change the LT as primary monitor).
I then tried installing the drivers from the CD that the monitor came with (and here I was thinking they included that for my coffee mug...) to no avail.
I am pretty much ready for some registry editing, third party applications, or other hacking of my hardware at this point, as I am beginning to feel that this is programmed in such a way as to never allow the user to change default monitors. Anyone ever had this problem before and survived it?
I hope the problem is an incompetent user, but I fear lazy or inept programmers.
The irony is I had thought having two screens would save me time...
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